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Human-Computer Interaction 5000 Forbes Avenue Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Education . Ph.D., Human-Computer Interaction, expected Spring 2010 Advisors: Vincent Aleven, Christopher Jones Human-Computer Interaction Institute Carnegie Mellon University

M.S., Human-Computer Interaction Completed May 2008 Carnegie Mellon University

B.S., Computer Science, Spanish, Human-Computer Interaction Completed May 2003 with University Honors Carnegie Mellon University

Research Interests . Human-Computer Interaction, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Cultural Learning, Second Language Learning, Ill-Defined Domains, Machine Learning, Dialogue Systems, Cognitive Modeling, Educational Data Mining

Experience . Graduate Researcher, Human-Computer Interaction Institute (2004 - current) Principal Investigator on “Prediction in French Film” ($75k) Member of the Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center Conducted research on learning of cultural objectives Developed educational technology for an online environment Summer Researcher, Institute for Creative Technologies at USC (Summer 2007) Evaluated BiLAT, an educational game for negotiation with cultural awareness Conducted a pilot study on students’ attributions towards characters in BiLAT Designed instructional interventions to teach individual differences in culture Research Programmer, Pittsburgh Advanced Cognitive Tutor Center (9/02- 8/04) Assisted in developing the Geometry Explanation Tutor for classroom instruction Analyzed dialogues towards a better understanding of student-tutor interaction Improve tutor feedback messages in response to student explanations Undergraduate Researcher, Senior Project in Human-Computer Interaction 2003 Performed user-testing on students and teachers in classroom setting Redesigned programming interface tutorial through HCI iterative design process Produced content to be included on educational CD sold by LEGO Company Undergraduate Researcher, Introduction to Human-Computer Interaction 2002 Performed user-testing, heuristic evaluations, and other HCI techniques on Palm Pilot V interface Served as Project Manager for final proposal Submitted written design proposal to Palm, Inc. Resident Director, Pennsylvania Governor’s School for Sciences (2003-2004) Responsible for the daily operations of the Governor’s School Coordinated team of 18 teaching assistants Programmer, iMeet, Inc (5/00-12/01) Designed database/software structure and graphical interface for web conferencing tool in ASP Tested production-level software, produced on-line documentation Conducted user-testing and iterative design process

Teaching Experience . Teaching Assistant, Programming Usable Interfaces (2008) Assisted in writing homeworks and exams Assisted students with homeworks and semester projects Course Development and Teaching Assistant, Educational Game Design (2007) Assisted with developing lectures for a semester long course Created and delivered lectures on motivation, gender, and user data collection Assisted with creating assignments and projects Helped create a theoretical process for designing educational games Teaching Assistant, Cognitive Modeling and ITS (2006) Delivered a lecture on Difficulty Factors Assessment Created and delivered a lecture on Educational Games Assisted in writing homeworks and exams Assisted students with homeworks and semester projects Mentor, Pittsburgh Science of Learning Summer School (2005, 2006) Supported groups of 2 in developing appropriate content and theory Aided groups in programming intelligent tutors Teaching Assistant, Pennsylvania Governor’s School for Sciences (2001-2002) Assisted in classes in CS, machine learning, parallel programming, graphic design Mentored research projects in ART and back-propagation neural networks, and biometric authentication Led theory and C++ language review sessions for groups of 5-40 students

Publications . Refereed Full Papers Ogan, A., Jones, C., Aleven, V. (2008) Pause, Predict, and Ponder: Use of Narrative Video to Improve Cultural Discussion and Learning. Proceedings of Computer-Human Interaction 2008. Florence, Italy. Ogan, A., Jones, C., Aleven, V. (2005) Improving Intercultural Competence by Predicting in French Film. In Richards, G. (Ed.), Proceedings of World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2005. Vancouver, BC: AACE. Aleven, V., Ogan, A., Popescu, O., Torrey, C., Koedinger, K. (2004). Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Tutorial Dialogue System for Self-Explanation. Intelligent Tutoring Systems 2004: 443-454 Aleven V., Popescu, O., Ogan, A. & Koedinger, K. R. (2003). A Formative Classroom Evaluation of a Tutorial Dialogue System that Supports Self- Explanation. In V. Aleven, U. Hoppe, J. Kay, R. Mizoguchi, H.Pain, F. Verdejo, & K. Yacef (Eds.), Supplemental Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, AIED2003, Vol. VI (pp. 345-355). School of Information Technologies, University of Sydney

Refereed Abstracts, Short and Workshop Papers

Ogan, A., Walker, W., Aleven, V. and Jones, C. (2008) “Towards supporting discussion in an ill-defined domain”, To appear in Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS 2008) Montreal, Canada, June 2008. Ogan, A., Jones, C., and Aleven V. (2007). Intelligent Tutoring in a Cultural Discussion Forum. Presented, European Computer Assisted Language Learning (EuroCALL 2007) Ulster, Northern Ireland, September 2007. Walker, E., and Ogan, A. (2007) Peer Moderation in Cultural Discussion Forums. Presented, European Computer Assisted Language Learning (EuroCALL 2007) Ulster, Northern Ireland, September 2007. Walker, E., Ogan, A., and Wylie, R. (2006). A Tense Situation: Applying Cognitive Tutor Methodology to Ill-Defined Domains. Presented, European Computer Assisted Language Learning (EuroCALL 2006) Granada, Spain, September 2006. Ogan, A., Jones, C., and Aleven, V. (2006) Focusing attention on critical moments: evaluation of a system for teaching intercultural competence. Presented, European Computer Assisted Language Learning (EuroCALL 2006) Granada, Spain, September 2006. Ogan, A., Wylie, R., and Walker, E. (2006). Defining the ill-defined: Modeling student behavior in making aspectual distinctions. Student Track Paper at the 8th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS-2006), Jhongli, Taiwan, June 26-30, 2006. Ogan, A., Aleven, V., and Jones, C. (2006) Culture in the Classroom: Challenges for Assessment in Ill-Defined Domains. In Workshop Proceedings on Ill- Defined Domains at the 8th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS-2006), Jhongli, Taiwan, June 26-30, 2006. Ogan, A., Wylie, R., and Walker, E. (2006). The challenges in adapting traditional techniques for modeling student behaviors in ill-defined domains. In Workshop Proceedings on Ill-Defined Domains at the 8th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS-2006), Jhongli, Taiwan, June 26-30, 2006.

Honors and Awards . Program in Interdisciplinary Educational Research (PIER) Fellowship Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society Phi Sigma Iota International Foreign Language Honor Society María Purificación Aguilar Award, Top Honors in the Modern Languages Dept. Excellence in Service Award, Pennsylvania Governor’s School for the Sciences

Professional Service . Reviewer, Intelligent Tutoring Systems conference (ITS), 2008 Program Committee, Culturally-Aware Tutoring Systems Workshop, ITS 2008 Organizing Committee, Speech and Language Technologies in Education (SLaTE), 2007 Reviewer, International Journal of Learning Technology, 2007 Graduate Student Leadership Team, Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center, 2006- 2007 Member, Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO) Member, American Educational Researchers Association (AERA) Member, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)